Trouble in the Lowe country
The season is nine days old and already we have the first managerial casualty as Paul Sturrock leaves Southampton by mutual consent.
His crime appears to have been losing the first game of the season and not being Glenn Ho[…]

You needed a good Imagination to believe that SOMEone like Belouise Some could even have a pop career. Especially if you consider the lyrics to this, his biggest hits.
You’ll have to guide me, these impossible schemes
You keep me stealing unste[…]

Sex and the Single artist
Jeff Koons has lost his law suit, the one that wanted to reduce his lawyers fees from four million dollars to two million, which he has already paid. The law suit was in relation to his porn star ex wife, and his lovely litt[…]

Formal Public Retraction
Back in May on one of NYLPM’s sister blogs I was very sniffy about karaoke videogame Singstar. I would like to take this opportunity, having played Singstar, to say that I was TOTALLY WRONG.
Oddly enough, I was also com[…]

Listen again, my teenage goblins
OK, I haven’t heard this yet (goes straight to audio feed, sorry no more details on the radio 4 website), but half an hour of “Dicing with Dragons” with Kim Newman delving into the roots of the role-[…]

Football Against the Enemy
It’s ten years since Simon Kuper’s book was first published. Football books often probed no further than player’s memoirs or tournament histories (Fever Pitch excepted). Football Against the Enemy created […]

My Apologies In Advance To The People’s Republic Of China
Amusing though it all is, I’m not a big one for call-that-a-sport!! responses to the Olympics. This is probably a legacy of my not thinking any sport was worthwhile until relativel[…]